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Using Technology to Teach Writing

Using Technology to Teach Writing. http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/8206881. Can we move outside the classroom??. Ipods , Ipads Itunes U Cell phone Apps Social Networking How does the technology help my pedagogical goals?. Editing and Peer Response. Norton’s Field Guide to Writing

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Using Technology to Teach Writing

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  1. Using Technology to Teach Writing http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/8206881

  2. Can we move outside the classroom?? • Ipods, Ipads • Itunes U • Cell phone Apps • Social Networking • How does the technology help my pedagogical goals?

  3. Editing and Peer Response • Norton’s Field Guide to Writing • Simple Online Editing • When I am introduced to new people they generally ask me what I do for a living. My answer is, “I work as a registered nurse in the Emergency Department(ED)”. >invert This is often rebutted with statements like; “How do you stand to do that?”, “What is the grossest thing that you have ever seen?” and, “How often do you really save a life?” . Usually I just come up with some small, impersonal statement like, “Someone has to work there, and I usually enjoy it”. I answer in this way because most people would probably be shocked by what I really think it means to save a life. • There may be some ethical differences in my opinion of what constitutes a life and what others consider life.>I’m not sure I quite understand this When I think of life, I mean a quality of life that makes the person living it happy or at least satisfied. I don’t think that it is wrong to try everything humanly possible to save a person when they are brought in to the ED. What bring up the ethical dilemma is the question, “What will we be saving?” Where I work, when a person is brought in coding, they have usually come from a distance that means poor first response time and poor outcome. No matter the circumstances, I always do my best to use all of my training and skill to save that persons life.>#10 Yes, there are many times when my care has been part of saving a life that without intervention would eventually have been lost. Honestly, there has only been one event, during my short carrier, when I can honestly say that a person’s actions directly, because of what they did, saved another person’s life.>this is a bit vague

  4. Brainstorming • Google Wonderwheel • Google Timeline • Bubble.us

  5. Don’t Reinvent the Wheel • Changes to MLA Guide • Grammar Tip of the Week • Blogs and Wikis (Tami) • Microsoft Tools (Jayme) • MYCompLab • Writing Exercises • Podcasts • Writing in Computer Sciences Blackboard Scholar

  6. Inspiration Sites • Opposing Views • Authors at Google • Wordle

  7. “cool” sites • Visuwords • www.freerice.com • www.chompchomp.com • www.animoto.com • How does the technology help my pedagogical goals?

  8. Grammar and Punctuation • Richard’s Grammar Blog • http://bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/resdoc5e/ • http://grammar.about.com/od/alightersideofwriting/a/The-Big-Quiz-On-Commonly-Confused-Words.htm

  9. The good, the bad, and the uglyResearch • Easy Bib • Research and Documentation Online • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdeYonLY3f8

  10. The good? Grammar Check, Spell Check, Documentation…etc. • Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL) • Nursing • Online Handbooks http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/newcatalog.aspx?disc=English&course=Composition&type=Handbooks&isbn=0312649029 • Online Exercises http://bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/writersref6e/Player/Pages/Main.aspx

  11. Don’t pretend the sites don’t exist • Wikipedia, Spark Notes—GO THERE with students (ask probing questions: What did the author leave out? Or Do you agree with the order of importance on Spark Notes?) • Teach students HOW to Google

  12. Online Dictionaries and Reference Tools • www.dictionary.com • http://www.visualthesaurus.com/wordlists/24246

  13. Paperless PapersPractical Reasons • Fewer excuses from students • All work is organized • Impossible to lose papers • Easier to detect plagiarism (Lisa) • Saves class time • Saves paper

  14. Pedagogical Reasons • Creates reliable running archive of students’ work. • Emphasizes writing process over finished work • Possibility of creating stronger, clearer responses • Potential to save grading time (use MS Clipboard to paste template style-material into multiple student responses

  15. Collaborate with colleagues: • Teaching Circles • http://blogs.bedfordstmartins.com/hackerhandbooks/ • The Chronicle of Higher Ed • www.merlot.com

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